I relate!

 

IDK. It needs to be clean, constant and grounded. Straight battery power is the ultimate solution, but I can't afford to power a PC, a couple o' racks of equipment, ext synths and 300v gear, etc.. etc.. from stored energy. :-( Instead I use old Monster Power PowerCenter PRO 3500 racks, Works great! Or, os it a placebo effect??? :-|

 

placebo, all that dc has to be inverted into a.c. to work on standard gear. so your taking all that pure direct current and bending it into a sine wave, and then turning it on and off every 60 seconds and making it alternate polarity. its like adding koolaid to glacier water. I myself use 3 phase 240 volts and run it through a sieve, a sifter, a filter and an old sofa i found by the dumpster, before converting it into single phase and using it to power the lava lamp next to the desk. can't be too careful these days..

 

When I was in high school in front of the teacher's parking lot there was a tall metal light pole with a powerful sodium vapor light with a brightly painted metal barrier pole about four feet high and three feet in front of it to protect it from being smashed into from a vehicle. Perhaps the light pole wasn't properly grounded, as when we discovered that if you grabbed both with your outstretched hands you felt a nice current passing through you, the tighter your grip on each object the stronger the effect. Well, a bunch of us were all stoned on Panama Red weed and drunk on Budweiser beers (not the good Czech shit, the piss Bud from the USA breweries) and one of us, maybe my friend, Phil figured out that if a person not holding onto those poles touched the tooth of the smiling kid that electrical current would be focused blam onto that tooth...which HURT LIKE A MUTHERFUKKER so much so that one would see a flash of blinding light and then a moment of temporary blindness! So, of course people would get the uninitiated to see how cool it was to grab the "Buzz Poles" and zap the the shit out of them every chance that they could! That was what we did for fun on a Friday night in 1976. Yea!!

 

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this is exactly why you had to be over 21 to buy electricty in Ohio back then.

 

Damn, I was so wrong about limiting electricity uses. What did you do to me, fuckin' Pentagon!!? (lame but fun excuse )

Seriously, seems like a very good read.

 

It's simple, really.

and nutshelled by the good captain.

 

Don't forget to switch off your poison sockets:

 

Our house was built in the 1960s, but unfortunately not enough sockets were installed. At that time, no one had any idea that the need for sockets would increase rapidly from the year 2000 onwards due to new technological inventions such as the PC, microwave.



Why shouldn't you connect several power strips one after the other?

Some house fires are smoldering fires because before the fuse blows, the power strip has heated up to over 200 degrees and starts to burn. Because a power strip can only handle a maximum of 3500 watts, but you plugged one power strip into the next power strip, so your devices use a total of 3900 watts.

The microwave 1000 watts, the coffee machine 2000 watts, the kettle 900 watts and when you plugged in the vacuum cleaner to clean your apartment after the last party, the accident happened and your power strip started to smolder and burn.

Usually you're lucky and it's just the holy residual current device that blows. You'll stumble around in the dark in desperation looking for your flashlight. If you're lucky, your batteries are still fresh, so you can eliminate the cause and then push the residual current device button back in.

 

You remind me of my next encounter with electricity. I think I was about 10. There was a street light with a broken metal plate at human height and it was completely shattered, exposing the wiring and components accessible to technicians. There was also a plank of wood which I picked up and my friends dared me to shove it into the opening. So did. There was a loud bang and the internal wiring set alight, burning all the way up inside the concrete structure to the lamp above and shortening the electricity supply of the neighbourhood, not to mention the thick black smoke. The other kids scarpared but I stood transfixed until I noticed all of the doors opening and curtains twitching as people investigated. I ran too.

 

As a child, I once stuck my index finger into the empty socket of the ceiling lamp. I think I just wanted to change a lightbulb. The 220 V electric shock went all the way to my big toe and the tip of my tongue, and I then lay on the bed for 5 minutes. It's amazing what people can endure.

In our city, there are criminal copper thieves who steal power lines from the public railway and sometimes even completely dismantle gutters from houses. One thief wasn't particularly clever and his charred body was found in a transformer house belonging to the Federal Railway; he was trying to steal a high-voltage line.

 

Guess its time for the Wichita LIneman..

 

Good to know. I'm guilty of having a couple of two strips connected together. However it's to have enough sockets for all the wallwarts I have for external drives, keyboards and control surfaces. Being their total current draw is negligible afaik, it's not a concern. But yes, I'd never load up high current draw items together whatsoever on a power strip.

 

I wrote a poem about electricity when I was a kid.


All is quiet high and deep
And that which is a fickle beast
Creeps overhead and underbed
To heat or chill or light at will
To touch and kill or hold it still.

A surge to wipe a precious memory
A spark to drive the turning wheel
A jolt to stop a beating heart
Or start again to let it heal.

 

Isn't that telephone lines?

 

whats a telephone line? my phone fits in my pocket.. have you been smoking some electricity..

 

I see why the music is not good anymore, because it has been electrified.

 

see bob dylan at the Newport Folk Festival for a documentation of this sort of thing.

The Other Side of the Mirror

An unvarnished chronicle of Bob Dylan's metamorphosis from folk to rock musician via appearances at the Newport Folk Festival between 1963 and 1965.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1134837/?ref_=fn_all_ttl_2

but remember, like all things in life, its not just what you do, but how you do it..

there is great electronic/electric music and there is mundane or painful music, same in the acoustic world. Thats why there are musicians, to create music, its a matter of taste, and style as well as tools.

 

Electrical lines!